Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, You are gods?

If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken;

Saying unto Aaron, Make us gods to go before us: for as for this Moses, who brought us out of the land of Egypt, we know not what is become of him.

And when the people saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men.

Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoics, encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say? Others, He seems to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection.

Moreover you see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul has persuaded and turned away many people, saying that they are no gods, which are made with hands:

For though there be those called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,)

But then, when you knew not God, you did service unto them which by nature are no gods.